Lauren Henson, better known by her stage name Indiana, is a British singer-songwriter from Loughborough.
Initially working as a T-shirt designer, a YouTube cover of Joe Goddard’s “Gabriel” caught the eye of one of its writers, John Beck and the two began working on original music. Later signing to Sony, she released a string of singles that attracted industry buzz, such as “Blind As I Am”, “Smoking Gun” and “Mess Around”. However, it was her 2014 single, “Solo Dancing”, that catapulted her into mainstream success, reaching the top 20 of the UK singles chart. Its parent album, No Romeo, was subject to much delay: despite being scheduled for the end of August that year, following the release of the second single, “Heart On Fire”, it wouldn’t hit shelves until February 2015. The album was met with acclaim and reached #17 in the UK, but Indiana was nonetheless dropped by her label shortly after.
Spending much of 2016 and 2017 working on new material independently, she released the standalone single “Caroline” and “Bad Luck” on SoundCloud as teasers for what would eventually become her second album. Not Girlfriend Material, released on August 24, 2018, featured the latter track and 9 other new songs. Lyrically, the album details her breakup with her boyfriend and what she describes as a sexual and romantic liberation of sorts:

A massive part of the journey was becoming single […] and finding myself. Getting to know me again and using the parts of me, that I’d suppressed, to write music and create visuals. I’m a really sexual person and for a long time, I wasn’t able to express that part of me in imagery or song or just in public. […] I was discovering that guys like this sexual part of me, but they […] wanna change me into the perfect girlfriend […] I don’t need a man and I quite like having my fun with them and calling it a day. Not a relationship kind of gal. And the title was born.